06-09-2022, 02:53 PM
(06-09-2022, 07:36 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-08-2022, 08:54 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:Quote:Do Millennials really care as much about climate change as they do other things that are affecting us these days (and over the past 20+ years)? Prior to COVID, it seems there were movements for protests against big oil et al on climate change but weren't they mainly participated by Gen Z or the very youngest of the Millennials? Obviously climate change should be the big one for us as Millennials are at the age now (average age 31) where they usually would be having kids - something that affects anyone's outlook on the future in a major way. I for some reason suspect we will prioritise domestic things over global things due to how we're so directly affected. Look at the guns and social system problems and you'll probably see that more people would want to fix those before we tackle climate change and a war in another part of the world. I expect climate change will take a backseat vs things like ensuring their child doesn't become the next school shooting victim and having a decent stable income.
Millennials still have memories of when times were good. They don't have quite the backed-into-a-corner, "we have nothing to lose!" mindset of a lot of Gen Z (well "Gen Z". about half of what we call Gen Z is still later wave Civic, and I'd argue they are the most vocal of the bunch. the Adaptive second half of Gen Z are much more agreeable, goofy/trolly, less opinionated)
Millennials have no memory of "when things were good" if you apply an unbiased measurement to "good times". There is a 5 decades long march to the right that has empowered the powerful and weakened the already weak. It's as if a bedridden polio victim looked back on the "good times" when she could still walk with leg braces and crutches. As a society, we need to aim much higher, but the memory of that target is fadin with the aging populous who do remember.
Yup. The good times never die; they just--- fade away.